European Data Center & Colocation Market

NVIDIA GTC Berlin is NVIDIA's AI conference for Europe and part of the 2026 GTC series, held October 20–22, 2026 at STATION-Berlin in Berlin, Germany, with the keynote by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on October 21 at the Tempodrom. The event brings GPU computing, AI infrastructure, and applied-AI programming to European developers, researchers, and enterprise leaders, drawing an expected 10,000+ att...

Convergence 2026 is a one-day conference organized by Digital Infrastructure Ireland, held on October 22, 2026, at Croke Park in Dublin. The event brings together policymakers, regulators, industry operators, energy stakeholders, and investors to address the structural challenges facing Ireland's digital infrastructure sector. Programming Focus Energy capacity and grid constraints for data cent...

Data Centre World Madrid 2026 is a two-day conference and exhibition held November 4-5 at IFEMA Madrid as part of Tech Show Madrid, organized by Closer Still Media. The 2025 edition drew more than 27,000 professionals, 470+ exhibitors and sponsors, and 400 speakers. The 2026 edition targets a similar or larger audience across data center operators, IT directors, facility engineers, and infrastr...

The UK Development & Finance Forum 2026 takes place on November 4, 2026, at Gowling WLG in London. Organized by New Project Media (NPM), the senior-level executive gathering convenes developers, independent power producers (IPPs), investors, lenders, advisors, and corporate infrastructure leads across the UK renewable energy and data center industries. Roughly half of the registered audience re...

The Data Center Meet-Up: Manchester is an in-person regional networking gathering organised by W.Media in partnership with the Nomad Futurist Foundation. Scheduled for November 11, 2026, at CUPRA City Garage Manchester in central Manchester, the single-day event convenes digital infrastructure professionals, cloud operators, and data center engineers from across Greater Manchester and the wider...

Bisnow's pan-European data centre conference, scheduled for 12 November 2026 in London. The half-day programme is the Europe-wide counterpart to Bisnow's UK-specific April event, covering continental market dynamics, capital flows, power availability and the FLAP-D markets alongside emerging European hubs. Programming Focus European market outlook across FLAP-D and emerging hubs Cross-border ca...

DataCentres Ireland 2026 is the 16th annual edition of Ireland's largest data centre conference and exhibition, organised by Stepex Ltd and held on 18–19 November 2026 at the RDS (Royal Dublin Society), Dublin. The event combines a free-to-attend exhibition with a multi-streamed conference, drawing more than 2,500 operators, suppliers, and decision-makers over two days. The 2025 edition feature...

Data Centre World Paris returns to Paris Expo Porte de Versailles on November 18–19, 2026, marking the 10th anniversary of Tech Show Paris. Organised by Closer Still Media, the event brings together data center managers, infrastructure leaders, CTOs, CIOs, facility managers, cloud architects, and critical infrastructure experts. The 2025 edition attracted more than 7,900 professionals, 310 exhi...

DCN Zurich 2026 is Switzerland's annual data center summit, organized by Data Center Nation in partnership with the Swiss Data Center Association. The one-day event takes place on November 25, 2026 at Messe Zürich, running 8:00am to 5:00pm. Now in its fourth year, the summit draws senior decision-makers, operators, investors, and technology providers from across the Swiss and European digital i...

Datacenter Forum Stockholm 2026 is the 12th annual edition of the Nordic data center community's flagship forum, organized by Datacenter Forum. It runs December 3, 2026 at Stockholmsmässan in Älvsjö, Stockholm, and brings together more than 700 professionals from Sweden's data center and IT infrastructure sector. Registration is free for qualifying end-users, operators, and enterprise decision-...

DCD>Global Awards is the data center industry's long-running global awards ceremony, held annually at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House in London. The 2026 gala takes place December 9, 2026 as a black-tie dinner and ceremony, broadcast live worldwide and drawing approximately 1,500 industry professionals. Entries open April 2026 with free submission. The ceremony is historically hosted by a well-...

AI Cities Zaragoza is a two-day executive summit convened by Data Centre Dynamics (InfraXmedia) focused on aligning European regional governments, utilities, and digital infrastructure developers around AI data center deployment. The inaugural European edition takes place February 3 to 4, 2027, at the Palacio de Congresos de Zaragoza in the Aragon region of Spain, supported by the Government of...

DCN Paris 2027 is a digital infrastructure conference and trade exhibition organized by Data Center Nation, taking place on February 23, 2027 at the Palais des Congrès de Paris. The full-day event brings together more than 1,200 data center decision-makers, 80 speakers, and over 20 thought-leadership sessions covering cloud infrastructure, facility operations, and power strategies across France...

Data Centre World London is a major international exhibition and conference dedicated to data center infrastructure, operations, and facilities engineering. Organized by CloserStill Media as part of Tech Show London, the gathering takes place March 10 to 11, 2027, at ExCeL London in the Royal Docks. The wider Tech Show London umbrella routinely attracts more than 30,000 visitors, 450 speakers a...

The OCP EMEA Summit is the Open Compute Project's European gathering, held April 6–8, 2027 in Hamburg, Germany. It brings together technical and business leaders across EMEA to advance open data center hardware and infrastructure, with emphasis on AI and cloud data centers, data center power and cooling, sustainability and heat reuse, security, and deployments of OCP-recognized equipment across...

DCD>Connect | Southern Europe returns to Palacio Municipal IFEMA Madrid for its 2027 edition on May 5-6, organised by Data Centre Dynamics Ltd. The event brings together 3,400+ senior professionals from Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, France, and the broader Southern European region. The 2026 edition drew more than 3,000 attendees, 200+ exhibitors, and 200+ speakers; the 2027 programme is expan...

Data Centre World Frankfurt is a major European data center exhibition and conference serving the DACH digital infrastructure market. Organized by CloserStill Media as part of Tech Show Frankfurt, the gathering takes place May 19 to 20, 2027, across Hall 3 at Messe Frankfurt. The co-located event platform brings together data center operators, facilities managers, MEP consultants, system integr...

DCN Milan 2027 is an annual digital infrastructure summit organized by Data Center Nation, taking place on May 27, 2027 at Allianz MiCo in Milan, Italy. Entering its sixth edition, the full-day gathering connects hyperscalers, colocation operators, enterprise buyers, engineering consultants, utilities, and infrastructure technology suppliers. The summit expects more than 3,400 data center decis...

Datacloud Global Congress is the flagship annual conference of the Datacloud series, held each June in Cannes, France. The 2027 edition runs 2–4 June 2027 at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. The 2026 edition drew 6,000+ delegates, with roughly 70% at C-level, VP, or director level and 35% representing hyperscalers and data center operators. The event is built around senior-level network...

RAISE Summit 2027 runs July 6-8 at the Palais des Congrès de Paris at Porte Maillot, moving to a three-day format and a larger venue after the 2026 edition drew more than 9,000 attendees to Le Carrousel du Louvre. The summit is produced by Hyve Group, which acquired RAISE from founder Chain of Events in July 2026 alongside MACHINA Summit and Signal Week to establish its AI SuperVertical. The fo...

DCN Stockholm 2027 is a full-day pan-Nordic digital infrastructure conference and exhibition organized by Data Center Nation in collaboration with the Swedish Datacenter Industry Association (SweDCI). Taking place on September 2, 2027 in Stockholm, Sweden, the summit brings together more than 750 data center decision-makers, over 85 industry speakers, and 25 thought-leadership sessions addressi...

Platform Global is the annual flagship congress hosted by Platform Markets Group, held September 7 to 9, 2027 at the Palais des Congrès in Antibes/Juan-les-Pins, France. Now in its sixth edition, the three-day gathering brings together roughly 800 digital infrastructure and data center professionals, with approximately 70% attending at C-level. The previous three editions sold out. The congress...

DCD Connect | London is Data Centre Dynamics' flagship European conference and exhibition, held September 14 to 15, 2027, at Olympia London in Kensington. After outgrowing its previous venue at the Business Design Centre, the event relocates to Olympia to accommodate more than 5,000 senior data center professionals, 200 exhibitors, and over 280 speakers. The gathering brings together executives...

DCN Warsaw 2027 is an annual data center summit organized by Data Center Nation, scheduled for October 6, 2027, at Expo XXI in Warsaw, Poland. The full-day gathering convenes data center operators, hyperscalers, cloud providers, engineering consultants, utilities, and infrastructure equipment manufacturers across Central and Eastern Europe. The summit anticipates more than 950 decision-makers, ...